Involvement of the Binuclear Copper Site in the Proteolytic Activity of Polyphenol Oxidase |
| |
Authors: | Kuwabara Tomohiko; Katoh Yuji |
| |
Institution: | 1 Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan
2 Master's Program in Biosystem Studies, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan |
| |
Abstract: | Plant polyphenol oxidase (PPO) is apt to degrade during andeven after purification. We developed a method to stabilizePPO by 0.3 M NaCl, 0.1% (w/v) Tween 20, and 50% (w/v) ethyleneglycol at pH 6.5. The protein slowly degraded by itself whenthe stabilizing reagents were removed. Ascorbate and/or H2O2accelerated the degradation. The ascorbate-induced degradationwas inhibited by catalase, suggesting that H2O2 is generatedthrough reduction of PPO by ascorbate. It is likely that dissolvedoxygen is converted to peroxide through two-electron reductionby the reaction center of PPO, binuclear Cu site, and a Fenton-typereaction occurred on it. This understanding was supported bythe finding that the H2O2-induced degradation was inhibitedby metal-chelators as well as by polyphenolic substrate of PPO.Considering the postulated mechanism of the self-degradationof PPO, we re-examined the degradation of the 23-kDa proteinof PSII by PPO Kuwabara et al. (1997) Plant Cell Physiol. 38:179]. The obtained results suggested that the 23-kDa proteintriggers the active oxygen production by the binuclear Cu site,probably as reductant, and receives the radical species preferentiallyto the polypeptide moiety of PPO. (Received April 15, 1999; Accepted July 21, 1999) |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 Oxford 等数据库收录! |
|